Video of Cancer Cells, Venetoclax and More…

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Surfing the Web uncovered these news items worth sharing:

  • Two researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have produced a video of cancer cells from a breast tumor escaping and metastasizing. The video was featured in the American Society for Cell Biology’s 2015 Celldance video series.

  • There’s excitement over the drug Venetoclax! After phase I of a clinical trial, nearly 80 percent of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) responded favorably to the drug. Details provided in NEJM.
  • Researchers at the University of Montreal have found that a select number of heart drugs and antibiotics are effective in treating cancers. A total of 14 drugs were identified, mostly cardiac glycosides. Results were published in Cancer Research.

Grantsmanship for Postdocs: Navigating the K99/R00 Award

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If you missed the “Grantsmanship for Postdocs” seminar, check out this eBriefing by Evguenia Alexandrova. The seminar was hosted by the New York Academy of Science’s Science Alliance and New York Women in Stem (NYWISTEM), and featured a presentation by Jaime S. Rubin from Columbia University, followed by a panel discussion with postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty who have successfully applied for K99/R00 funding.

Rubin outlines the K99/R00 application and review process, discusses common mistakes applicants make, and offers tips for writing a competitive application. The panelists emphasize the importance of starting the application early, seeking advice from past awardees, and working closely with postdoc mentors and grant-writing advisors throughout the application process.

Click the image above to watch the presentation (63:19 min) and panel discussion (54:52 min) or visit the eBriefing site for a detailed overview and list of resources on grants and funding.

Generating a Public URL of References using MyBibliography

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Need a link containing a list of your (or your PI’s) authored/co-authored publications for the new NIH Biosketch format? Here’s a tip on using the MyBibliography section in PubMed’s MyNCBI to get this done. You must first have an active MyNCBI account in order to successfully complete the steps below.

  1. Visit PubMed via the MSK Library website using this URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?otool=mskcclib.
  2. Login to MyNCBI (if not already).
  3. Search for your (or another author’s) publications by going to PubMed’s Advanced search and choosing “Author” from the drop-down menu in the first search box. You can start to type in a last name for a list of suggested authors to appear. Choose the appropriate name from the list and hit Search.
  4. Scan the list of results and check off the correct citations as you go. Note: some results retrieved may belong to another author with the same last name and first name abbreviation – be careful when selecting references.
  5. Once you have all of the appropriate references checked off, click Send To in the upper right and then choose My Bibliography.
  6. Once saved to this section within your MyNCBI account, you can then manage the references and choose to make the list public.
  7. This generates a unique URL which can then be placed in your Biosketch or elsewhere.

For help retrieving a list of publications for you or your PI, please contact us.